Methods and Epistemologies

BBW culture has largely remained beneath scholarly interest. As a foundational project exploring these spaces, the choice of methodology was vitally important. In this chapter, I ground the work in feminist standpoint epistemologies before framing the specific methods used: in-depth interviewing and autoethnography. Finally, I explore the frameworks for the analysis later in the book, situating the work in qualitative approaches to thematic analysis guided by feminist frameworks.